The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills.

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The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills.
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Geneva (Switzerland)
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Printed at London :: By Rouland Hall [and Thomas Hacket], dwellyng in Gutter Lane, at the sygne of the halfe Egle and the Keye,
1562.
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Church discipline -- Early works to 1800.
Ecclesiastical law -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- Early works to 1800.
Church and state -- Switzerland -- Early works to 1800.
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"The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a01594.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.

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¶Against printing or making of cards & dies.

Item ye none do make or cause to be made or printed either to bye or sell cards, dies or any other papistical thī∣gs, ye be imprinted cōtrary to the holy christiā reformaciō, vpon paine of lx. shil. & losse of the marchandise.

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Item that no maner of men shall goe to the bathes or stoufes appointed for women, and also women not to goe to those that be appointed for mē vpon payne of .lx. shillings for whoso∣euer shalbe so founde, and asmuche for ye maister of ye stoufe for suffrīg it.

Item that no manner person doe sing anye vayne dishonest or rebau∣dye songs, neither to dance, nor make masques, or mommeries, or any dis∣guisinges in no maner or sort what∣soeuer it be, vpon paine to be put thre dayes in prison with breade and wa∣ter and .lx. shillynges for euery tyme so offendyng.

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